Outlook Episodes Episode guide

A fake bus service kidnapped my sister, so I made a real one

Damilola couldn’t stop the gangs on Lagos transport, so she created a safe new system
Who is the shy guy behind the viral star Broda Shaggi?

The Nigerian actor on the pressure to perform as the brash character followed by millions
Nobody wanted to work with me, now I make hit records

Blind music producer Cobhams Asuquo faced discrimination until he showed how good he was
I was one of 15 wives, until art helped me escape

How the skills she learnt as a child gave Nigerian artist Mama Nike a way out
Outlook Mixtape: Stories from the small print

Three surprising tales spun from the world of advertising
Escape from Castro’s Cuba: ‘Singing saved my sanity’

A country girl's dream of singing led Candi Sosa into exile in the United States
Grateful 'for a couple of hours of normal life'

Tari Lang on teenage love, fear and making yoghurt during 1960s Indonesian dictatorship
My childhood prophecy: You must become a chess champion

Chess.com co-founder Danny Rensch's obsession with chess deepened after a trance session
Could a fig tree reveal a secret prison?

Chilean Alejandra Holzapfel’s long fight to reclaim the hidden torture site she survived
The Outlook Mixtape: A room of one's own

Stories of creativity and freedom inspired by Virginia Woolf's famous book
The Englishman who became an unlikely Brazilian pop star

Ritchie became a phenomenon in Brazil after his song accidentally became an 80s smash hit
Why did my white dad keep a file on me?

It took years before black scholar Dorothy Roberts uncovered the truth about her family
We crossed the Atlantic in two floating cars

Two friends sailed 3000 miles in a foam-filled Volkswagen Passat and a Ford Taunus
We never believed our mother was a murderer

It took nearly 60 years after her death for Nora Parham to be pardoned for murder
Outlook Mixtape: Into the Woods

Some of our favourite stories from the world's forests
My father and the curse of the golden egg

Jeweller Paul Kutchinsky made the world’s biggest golden egg, but it broke his family
From singing while mopping floors to performing to thousands

James Emmanuel moved to the UK to help support his family and found fame as a singer
Hip-hop, lies, and the ultimate prize, part 2

The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry
Hip-hop, lies, and the ultimate prize, part 1

The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry
Outlook Mixtape: Six degrees of... Kevin

From Kevin Bacon to an interstellar musical, we share stories linked by one name - Kevin
I crash-landed inside an active volcano

Chris Duddy survived 28 hours in Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano after his helicopter crashed
Me, dad, and the teen novel I wrote by accident

While caring for her dad, Lucy Ivison found an unexpected outlet: writing with her ex
The carpenter who became a blues star in his 60s

Forbidden from singing the blues as a boy, Robert Finley found success decades later
The retired grandmother cracking cold cases with DNA

How a detective novel inspired Margaret Press to use DNA to identify the unknown dead
Outlook Mixtape: The girlband edition

It's high kicks, harmonies and matching hairstyles as we celebrate the girlband
Becoming a financial expert after life on the streets

Kindness from a stranger helped turn Peter Komolafe's life around when he had nothing
One man, fifty machines and a bid to reboot civilisation

When Marcin Jakubowski’s tractor broke, he decided to try and change the world
'I can't stop the war but music gives us hope'

Composer Iryna Gould on why playing musical instruments is vital for Ukrainian children
Could a sitcom save a man from death row?

Juan Catalan hoped comedian Larry David could help exonerate him from a murder charge
Outlook Mixtape: Going solo

The making of an unexpected jazz masterpiece, and alone in the ocean on an upturned boat